English Palissy Ware Majolica Brown-Ground Snake and Frog Pitcher
Attributed to Samuel Alcock, circa 1890
Naturalistically modeled as a tree-stump with a small frog perched on the spout, the trunk molded with oak branches and entwined with a rising snake, the handle and mouth as a bifurcated branch, pink interior and yellow underside, signed with a painted O. Height 10 inches.

Literature:
Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica, A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, New York, 1989, p. 138 (as Samuel Alcock, circa 1858).


C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection

overall very nice condition, residue on footrim and one area where the glaze did not take, in the manufacture, examined under blacklight
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